#jack donnell

[justplainwhump]

Mac

A short character intro of some sort, for the character that has lurked in the background of Adrian and Blanca's story since their very first chapter. The sixth guard dog.

[Pet Safety Masterlist]; this piece is referencing [Favor].

Content / warnings: BBU, (indirect) dehumanisation, captivity, briefly referenced/implied noncon.

In the nights in his cell - or kennel, rather, he didn't know why but there was a difference and it made his stomach uneasy - Mac had a lot of time for thoughts. And he used it. He thought about fights, about technique and strategies, about his opponents and their strengths and weaknesses. He thought about winning, about the feeling of triumph, and how stale it was. Like the tasteless, grayish mass that came from a dispenser in the kennel wall, a viscous nutri-shake, that fell into a stainless steel bowl welded to the floor. Victories in his fights were just the same. Bland, insipid, and utterly necessary to survive. 

Mac pulled down the lever and watched more of the nutri-shake fall into the bowl. Sometimes he thought about how long he'd have to hold it down until the room would be flooded. Sometimes he wondered, if the person he'd been before would've known how to calculate it. The pet he was now sure did not. He stared down at the food below him, let himself sink to his knees before he bowed down to eat it. He'd never been further from being a person.

He'd been allowed to eat at a table, real food, with taste and consistency, back at his owner's place. He'd had the others to talk to, Guards, like him. They hadn't been what people called *friends*, he wagered, at least he hadn't actually liked them, but they had existed together, shared a life and the dedication a common goal - to keep their master safe and satisfied. They hadn't been friends, but in lack of better terms, they'd been a pack.

Here, everyone like him was an adversary, who'd fight him to the death the next day or another. And those not like him were the ones who didn't care about if the others died, or Mac did.

It was exhausting. A feeling that wasn't going to bring him anywhere. That was why when Mac had time for thoughts, he didn't think too much about his pack. 

He thought about his owner.

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Jack Donnell took great pride in his belongings, and that had always included his WRU-trained Guards. Six of them, all of the same height, featuring the same dark hair, same broad shoulders, same mannerisms. He employed a retired WRU Guard handler for some hours a week to make sure the Guards worked like one. He also bought the consulting services of a WRU Romantic Trainer - not for the Guards to be involved directly, but to make them part of intricate designed "scenes" that Mac learned to hate.

Jack wanted to be a ruler, a conqueror, and every once in a while he loved to dress his Pets up in accurate costumes, only to make them submit to him in every scenario possible.

Mac had endured. He'd been a good pet. Until the day a new business partner of Jack's had shown up with his Romantic.

Blanca.

Blanca was petite, with the sort of auburn hair that could look dark brown in one moment and light up like fire in another, with a seductive sway to her hips, full lips that curved into a knowing smile and clothes so tight they left nothing about her curves to the imagination.

Hot, Mac knew he was supposed to think. 

He didn't. 

Please spare her from this, he'd thought instead and closed his eyes. Prayed, almost. As if he knew, how to. 

As if there was a God who'd listen to a pet. No. Their only Gods were their owners.

And while her owner had all but fled the room and left his subject in the hand of another, Mac had stayed by the door, standing at attention, while he watched his master brutalize her.

It took hours.

And after Jack was done, he'd simply smiled to himself, sauntered towards Mac without another look at the broken figure of the Romantic behind him, and patted Mac's cheek. "Good boy," he'd said, and left. 

That moment had been the first in Mac's conscious life, that he'd felt something a Pet was never supposed to feel.

He'd felt hatred. Plain, pure, seething hatred, for the one man he was supposed to love. 

He'd felt it every day since.

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Wouldn't You Rather Be a Widow Than a Divorcee?

Even years later, despite the variety of cases he’d taken, defending Victoria Keenan still haunts Bobby. He'd searched for information about her, but she’d seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth. But when he stumbles upon a photo of Audrey Raines, he realises that maybe she hasn’t hidden her tracks after all.

Chapter 1

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 8 May:

1567 – Shane O’Neill’s army crosses the Swilly estuary at Farsetmore, and is defeated in a pitched battle by Hugh O’Donnell. Many drown while trying to escape; O’Neill loses 1,300 men. 1597 – Death of Fiach MacHugh O’Byrne. Fiach Mac Aodha Ó Broin was Lord of Ranelagh and sometime leader of the Clann Uí Bhroin, or the O’Byrne clan, during the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. 1796 – John Pitt…

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Just a fun post I wanted to do after seeing someone else do it. These are just if my Comfort Characters were certain things. Let me know how you think I did if you happen to know them. 🥰

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THE LAST AMITYVILLE MOVIE (2024) A YouTuber gets trapped in the franchise!

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[storiesfabled]

updated muse list

under the cut you will find the most up-to-date muse list.

911

evan buckley

maddie buckley

charlotte buckley-diaz // rowan blanchard // buck & eddie daughter

eddie diaz

athena grant

may grant

howard han

tommy kinard

bobby nash

harper nash // er registrar // ashley benson // bobby & marcy daughter

jonah nash // firefighter // tyler blackburn // ray & margaret son

raymund nash // principal // d.w. moffett // bobby’s brother

russell nash // lawyer // jack coleman // bobby’s brother

matthew ransone // police officer // casey deidrick // lou’s son

josh russo

ashlynn wilson // college student // victoria justice // henrietta & karen daughter

henrietta wilson

karen wilson

911: lone star

nancy gillian

trevor parks

arianna reyes // maiara walsh // tk & carlos daughter

carlos reyes

gabriel reyes

gabriella ryder // troian bellisario // judd & grace daughter

grace ryder

jackson ryder // football coach & pe teacher // eric stonestreet // judd’s brother

judd ryder

weston ryder // oil tycoon // jeffrey dean morgan // judd’s brother

aubrey strand // madison davenport // owen & npc daughter

owen strand

tk strand

victoria strand // liana liberato // owen & npc daughter

paul strickland

billy tyson

billy tyson jr. // firefighter // steven r. mcqueen // billy & npc son

destinie tyson // nursing student // phoebe tonkin // billy & npc daughter

chicago fire

tricia boden // aisha dee // wallace & donna daughter

wallace boden

sylvie brett

matt casey

gabriella dawson

christopher hermann

stella kidd

patrick mcholland // hunter parrish // mouch & trudy son

rachel mcholland // anna kendrick // mouch & trudy daughter

randall ‘mouch’ mcholland

peter mills

kelly severide

leslie shay

allison shay-severide // zoe levin // kelly & leslie daughter

brian ‘otis’ zvonecek

chicago med

anna charles

daniel charles

will halstead

maggie lockwood

connor rhodes

chicago pd

kevin atwater

antonio dawson

eva dawson

hannah halstead // willa holland // jay & erin daughter

jay halstead

erin lindsay

trudy platt

adam ruzek

savannah ruzek // dianna agron // adam & kim daughter

emmaline voight // shay mitchell // adopted by hank

Hank voight

Madeline voight // police officer // charisma carpenter // hank & trudy daughter

Criminal minds

Penelope garcia

Aaron hotchner

Alexandra hotchner // ssa bau // alona tal // aaron & haley daughter

Jennifer jareau

Emily prentiss

Derek morgan

Brynnlee reid-morgan // aisha dee // derek & spencer daughter

David rossi

Rylee rossi // hayden panettiere // david & erin daughter

dallas

Ann ewing

Bobby ewing

Christopher ewing

John ross ewing

Olivia ewing // britt robertson // bobby & ann daughter

Bryan jones // history professor // colin donnell

fire country

Bode Donovan

Sharon Leone

Vince Leone

Gabriella Perez

Manny Perez

Grey’s anatomy

Teddy altman

Jackson avery

Miranda bailey

Tuck bailey-jones

Stephanie edwards

Lexie grey

Meredith grey

Zola grey-shepherd

Alex karev

Chloe montgomery-shepherd // er nurse // madelaine petsch

Arizona robbins

Mark sloan

Sofia sloan-torres

Callie torres

house

Robert chase

Lisa cuddy

Gregory house

Veronica house // hailee steinfeld // greg & lisa daughter

ncis

Anthony dinozzo jr.

Tobias fornell

Hannah gibbs // haley ramm // jethro & jenny daughter

Leroy jethro gibbs

Timothy mcgee

Jenny shepard

Private practice

Cooper freedman

Addison montgomery

Jasmine montgomery-reilly // dove cameron // addison & jake daughter 

Jake reilly

Station 19

Travis montgomery

Theo ruiz

Ben warren

Zoey warren // college student // amber riley // ben & miranda daughter

supernatural

Annabelle buckley-moore // hunter // josephine langsford // evan buckley & jess daughter

Castiel

Crowley

Bobby singer

Rufus turner

Dean winchester

Johanna winchester // danielle campbell // dean & castiel daughter

John winchester

Sam winchester

[just-a-pole-sir]

Colin Donnell or Jack Quaid

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

A Shepard’s Halloween (kinda)

*The Kingdom of Ylisse is preparing for Halloween, but none more passionately than the Robin and Tharja household. Their home has converted the lawn into a cemetery with skeletons crawling out of their graves, animatronic zombies pounding at their windows, and werewolves perched on the gate.*

-Inside-

Tharja, dressed as Morticia Addams: Ah, my fated one, this season fills me with such wicked joy. It reminds me of the day you asked me to be your wife.

Robin, dressed as Gomez Addams: Or that time Chrom let me burn all those boats. I don’t know if he knows I just really wanted to indulge in my arsonistic tendencies.

Tharja: Oh, darling, don’t sell yourself short. It was a tactically sound decision.

Robin: Ah, but the love we made afterwards was historic.

Tharja: You were so excited by the fire.

Child!Noire, emerging from the house, dressed as a Christmas Elf: Mama and papa are icky!

*The couple turn to behold their child*

Tharja: Noire... you are aware you were meant to wear a Halloween costume?

Noire: But I really want it to be Christmas! And I really like being an elf! And- and it’s better than dumb old Morgan’s costume.

Robin: Why? What’s Morgan wear-

*Toddler!Morgan emerges behind Noire wearing one of Robin’s longcoats that is comically too big for her*

Morgan: Imma daddy for ‘Ween!

*Robin falls to his hands and knees, clutching his heart*

Robin: It- it’s perfect- baby girl.

Noire: Suck up.

Tharja: Indeed.

*The mother and daughter nod to each other in mutual disgust as Robin scoops up Morgan*

*Henry and Olivia, dressed as Jack Skellington and Sally respectively, with Child!Inigo dressed as a Pumpkin*

Henry: Hello guys! Are you ready to pull off people’s thumbs for Halloween?

Inigo: Yah! Thumbs!

Olivia: He means Trick or Treat.

Morgan and Noire: YEAH!

*Meanwhile, up the hill in the castle, the Royal Couple of Chrom and Sully are watching their Shepards*

Sully: Hun’, they do know it’s October 6, right?

Chrom: Try telling them that. Or try telling it to-

*Lissa, Donnel and Child!Owain burst out a window dressed as Harley Quinn, Deadpool, and Robin respectively*

Lissa: HAPPY HALLOWEEN NERDS!

Donnel: YEAH! HALLOWEEN!

Owain: YEAH! NERDS!

Fredrick rushes out after them: Milady! Please at least wear a sweater! It is chill out!

Lissa: CHEESE IT! THE FUZZ!

*They scatter*

Chrom, head in his hands: Every goddamn year.

Sully, patting him on the back: We’ll get our revenge come Christmastime. The it’ll be our turn to be annoying assholes.

Chrom: Naga, I love you Sully.

[lesbiancolumbo]

i didn’t expect jeff donnell to have a mention in this bio of jack lemmon i’m reading but sally ssos herself got a wonderful shoutout from him as an acting partner <3

[justplainwhump]

Files

Adrian plans to move against Jack.

In the timeline, this connects the pieces Gauze and Choices.

[Pet Safety]

Content: BBU, BBU recovery / pet lib setting, vaguely referenced past facility whump, vaguely implied past whump of minors.

Adrian stayed up long. It hurt the wounds in his neck to lay down anyway. As in the nights before, he’d sleep upright in the armchair in his living room. And if he was sitting already - well, he could read up on Jack Donnell.

He’d pulled the files of all Donnell’s pets before the inspection; he still had them saved on his work tablet. He knew the database queries by all WRU’s employees were recorded "for compliance reasons". He just hoped they weren’t paranoid enough to also regularly check their access of files on their own computers. If they did, he’d tell them it was about Bea.

Her case file was the first in the dossier, because she’d been Donnell’s latest acquisition. Adrian had only skimmed through it, back then. His job was to check the Guards, not the other designations; and he’d long learned that reading too many case files would make him angry and restless and lose the focus he needed.

Especially those about Romantics. 

Especially those about second hand Romantics.

He did take the time to read it now.

Romantic pet 400168. Taken in eight years ago, at age 18. His stomach revolted already. It was almost 50-50, he knew. The chances, of an 18 year old trainee being, in fact, 18. It was illegal to process minors. So everyone was always of age. 

She looked tired on the first photos. But stunningly beautiful already. And… almost happy. Relieved, to be at WRU. Adrian wondered, how long that had lasted. He didn’t want to know. So he scrolled on.

Specifications looked like a classic case, except for one line. 'English language training. Defamiliarization with native language (Spanish).'

Some training notes, that sounded smug and highly satisfied. 

Sale to a corporate lawyer, who paid extra for someone 'who looked like a virgin and fucked like a whore'.

Seven years with the guy.

Then refurb.

Hadn’t looked or felt like a virgin any longer, Adrian thought grimly; but then reassessed.

'Runaway. Rebellious behavior. Disloyal. Refurb and disciplinary measures necessary.'

'Intended sale to family friend.'

'Specification: Strict defamiliarization with Platonic/Domestic WRU Pet 278017. Strongly discouraging bonds with other pets. Fear response (new prospective’s wishes) ; to be enforced by training with Guard trainees.' 

Adrian stared at the closed door to his bedroom, behind which Bea was sleeping. Good for that first owner that his name was blacked out in the files, and that Adrian couldn’t access it without risking his own life, and hers. 

Bad for Jack Donnell, that Adrian knew his name.

The contract was simple; it included that there’d been some faults about her second wipe, issues with discipline and short term memory; and the buyer’s response that he knew her well enough and he’d still take her.

The photos on that contract were different. Still a perfectly pretty face, still barely any marks on her body. But the look in her eyes, this time was… haunted. Afraid.

Just as Jack had ordered. 

Teeth clenched, Adrian swiped to the next files.

The Guards’ documents he’d seen before, had had his suspicions about before as well. Before Bea had confirmed them. 'They all fight.' 

Background of experienced fighters, all of them. Former soldiers, mercenaries, martial arts fighters, gangsters. Some had been recruited directly into WRU from prison, instead of serving long sentences. The missing one, the one Bea had called Mac, was one of them. His former self’s list of crimes was impressive. Adrian was pretty sure it had only grown longer during Jack’s ownership. Including assault on Bea. At least in a better world, where hurting someone like her wouldn’t be a misdemeanor at best.

Whatever Mac had done to her though, whatever the others had done, in this life or their past - the one who controlled it all now was Jack.

Adrian’s hands were tied to come after Jack in his official capacity as Pet Safety Inspector. But there was always another option. Pet lib. If he could find out, where this arena was, where Mac was held, where the others fought sometimes as well, if Marta could send a team there, if they filmed and found and published evidence, even his boss would have no choice but to allow Adrian to act. 

Seizing all his pets. Revoking his pet owner’s license. Smile at him, while dictating all the fines he’d have to pay.

It was far less from what Adrian truly wanted to do to the man. But at least, it would be something.

*

"You know, Adri, you’d also save the pets." Marta said, after he explained his plan to her, a soft frown on her face. "Which is, what pet lib do, right?"

"Um." Adrian tilted his head. "Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course. That’s why I’m talking to you."

"No. You’re talking to me about revenge."

"Revenge would be for me to-" He stopped talking with a side glance to Bea and the runaway he’d helped during the raid, Noor, at the other end of the room. 

Marta and he spoke Spanish, so he was painfully aware that Bea wouldn’t want to listen in - but she could. And she shouldn’t hear these things from him. He was a better man than her owners had been. He swore, he’d keep her from violence. 

"Revenge would be more violent," he settled.

Marta scoffed, not convinced. "Sure. So. Anyway. If we do this, I don’t want you to confiscate them. I want to get them out for good. You find out where and what this place is, when they have their next fights. I find a safe space for a handful of recently freed, traumatized Fighters. It’ll take a while. So you take it slow, too, alright?"

He looked over at Bea, and she smiled back on instinct.

He would need her help to make out this place. She’d been there before, and it would hurt her to remember. Taking it slow was the best he could do. For her. After all, this was all for her.

And of course, to also save the other pets.

"Yeah," he sighed. "Yeah, alright. I will take it slow."

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[helena-edits-in-real-time]

Who Will Make Me Fight? Drag Me Out Alive?

Set after an altered Day 5, Jack returns from China to find that one of the only friends he has left is days away from execution and doing nothing to stop it.

He calls upon Donnell, Young, Dole and Frutt to take her case and give her her freedom back.

*Can stand alone from the series or serve as an alternate ending.

Chapter 1

[warsofasoiaf]

What do you think is the reason for the nickname “the sweet” in asoiaf? Namely, “Sweet” Donnel Hill of the Nights Watch, and Steffon “the sweet” Frey?

I think it depends on context. Donnel Hill is noted to be amiable and joking, but is "Sweet" a description of his nature, his slender build, or both. Why is Donnel "Sweet" and not "Slender?" Why is he not "Jolly" like Jolly Jack Musgood? It can't be alliteration, like it was with Steffon. We simply don't have enough information.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

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Former senior adviser to <b>Trump</b> on why she thinks <b>Trump</b> wants judge to jail him - CNN

New Post has been published on https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/politics/video/omarosa-jack-o-donnell-trump-hush-money-trial-new-york-digvid-ebof&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjUzM2UwMTY5ZmFhZTIwMGQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0Upnsl7D5roQlzgU-gpZOe

Former senior adviser to Trump on why she thinks Trump wants judge to jail him - CNN

CNN’s Erin Burnett talks to former President and Chief Operating Officer of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, Jack O’Donnell, and former Trump senior …

[01bompajacks]

Well, With the help of the Exum and Donnell family from Jackson Tennessee knowing their expertise on BBQ and BBQ sauce. Bompa Jack’s Sauce was born. The famous part comes into play when people line up outside the restaurant to get a taste of the BBQ and yes, the sauce is what made it great.

[poem-today]

A poem for St. Patrick's Day by James Clarence Mangan

Woman of Three Cows

O woman of Three Cows, agra! don’t let your tongue thus rattle! O, don’t be saucy, don’t be stiff, because you may have cattle. I have seen - and, here’s my hand to you, I only say what’s true - A many a one with twice your stock not half so proud as you.

Good luck to you, don’t scorn the poor, and don’t be their despiser, For worldly wealth soon melts away, and cheats the very miser, And Death soon strips the proudest wreath from haughty human brows; Then don’t be stiff, and don’t be proud, good Woman of Three Cows!

See where Momonia’s heroes lie, proud Owen More’s descendants, ’Tis they that won the glorious name, and had the grand attendants! If they were forced to bow to Fate, as every mortal bows, Can you be proud, can you be stiff, my Woman of Three Cows!

The brave sons of the Lord of Clare, they left the land to mourning; Mavrone! for they were banished, with no hope of their returning Who knows in what abodes of want those youths were driven to house? Yet you can give yourself these airs, O Woman of Three Cows!

O, think of Donnell of the Ships, the Chief whom nothing daunted See how he fell in distant Spain, unchronicled, unchanted! He sleeps, the great O’Sullivan, where thunder cannot rouse - Then ask yourself, should you be proud, good Woman of Three Cows!

O’Ruark, Maguire, those souls of fire, whose names are shrined in story Think how their high achievements once made Erin’s highest glory Yet now their bones lie mouldering under weeds and cypress boughs, And so, for all your pride, will yours, O Woman of Three Cows!

The O’Carrolls, also, famed when Fame was only for the boldest, Rest in forgotten sepulchres with Erin’s best and oldest; Yet who so great as they of yore in battle or carouse? just think of that, and hide your head, good Woman of Three Cows!

Your neighbour’s poor, and you, it seems, are big with vain ideas, Because, inagh! you’ve got three cows - one more,! see, than she has. That tongue of yours wags more at times than Charity allows, But if you’re strong, be merciful, great Woman of Three Cows!

Now, there you go! You still, of course, keep up your scornful bearing, And I’m too poor to hinder you; but, by the cloak I’m wearing, If I had but four cows myself, even though you were my spouse, I’d thwack you well to cure your pride, my Woman of Three Cows!

James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)

Image: Figure of a Young Woman in a Landscape by Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Indian ink and watercolour

Author image: Memorial bust of Mangan in St. Stephen's Green, sculpted by Oliver Sheppard

Mangan, who claimed to have translated his poem from the Irish, wrote: This ballad, which is of a homely cast, was intended as a rebuke to the saucy pride of a woman in humble life, who assumed airs of consequence from being the possessor of three cows. Its author's name is unknown, but its age can be determined, from the language, as belonging to the early part of the seventeenth century. That it was formerly very popular in Munster, may be concluded from the fact, that the phrase. "Easy, oh, woman of the three cows!" has become a saying in that province, on any occasion upon which it is desirable to lower the pretensions of a boastful or consequential person.

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TMZ TV Recap: Taylor Swift Tracker, Donnell Rawlings, KC Shooting Update

It’s hump day at TMZ — and while we’re only halfway there … we’re full throttle on all our TV shows! Starting on ‘TMZ Live’ … we talked about the legal war brewing between Taylor Swift and her private jet tracker, Jack Sweeney, who just fired… from TMZ.com https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/21/tmz-tv-recap-taylor-swift-tracker-donnell-rawlings-kansas-city-shooting/